Introduction
DO NOT SHOW THIS IN CLASS Today, Beyoncé is one of my favorite artists. She has already had a long career and has produced a number of albums, including Dangerously In Love, B-Day, I Am Sacha Fierce, 4, Beyoncé, Lemonade and The Lion King. One of the reasons I like Beyoncé and her music so much is because she has such a varied style in her albums and that’s why I can always rely on her music. On extravagant moments I like to listen to 4, if I want to listen to old pop classics like Halo, I put on I Am Sacha Fierce, and when I’m not feeling well I listen to Lemonade for a boost of self-confidence. Because I like Beyoncé’s style variation between albums so much, I think it would be nice to research with SpotifyR how her music has developed in recent years. By using SpotifyR audio features acousticness, energy, valence, dancaebility, speechness, and key. To dive a bit deeper in Beyoncé’s songs, I would like to compare an earlier song Halo with a more recent song Drunk In Love.
Albums: Their Musical Content
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Energy, Valence, Acousticness, and Danceability
In the scatterplot, the energy, valence, acousticness, and danceability of Beyoncé’s songs are shown. Overall, Beyoncé’s songs have an acousticness below 0.5, which means low confidence that the track is acoustic. You can also clearly see the difference between Beyoncé’s albums Dangerously In Love, B-Day Deluxe Edition, and 4 in valence compared to the other albums. The former have a higher valence than the other albums.
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Speechiness
In this graph, the speechiness of Beyoncé’s albums is shown. Songs with values above zero have a rap-like character (a lot of spoken words), and the lower below zero the value is, the more the song has an instrumental character instead of words (which Beyoncé’s songs mostly have as you can see).
Key
I created this graph because I thought it would tell a lot about the albums. The graph shows that Beyoncé key variation in her songs and albums.
Halo vs. Drunk In Love
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Halo
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Drunk In Love
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